BRIDGEPORT — Christopher Andrews acted like a man “possessed,” beating and stabbing his wife and children until he was shot to death by a Fairfield police officer, according to a police report released Thursday.

Shortly before 6 a.m. on Feb. 16, Fairfield police received a hysterical 911 call from the Andrews’ 13-year-old daughter. She was awakened to screaming in the family’s ranch-style home on Mountain Laurel Road, the report states.

The girl had fled the house barefoot and was hiding behind a fence as she heard shouting and “beating” sounds.

“She had never heard screaming like that in her life and her mother was yelling to her dad ‘stop’,” the girl told the 911 operator, according to police.

Several minutes later, the Andrews’ 15-year-old son called 911.

“He stated that his father was acting, ‘possessed,’ and his mother was bleeding from the head. His father had a ‘bat’,” the report states. The son told the operator his father had never acted that way before.

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Multiple police officers were dispatched to the scene; Fairfield police Officer Sean Fenton was the first to arrive.

Apparently despondent after assaulting his family, Andrews cut his wrist and then stabbed himself in the neck with the knife, the report states.

The older son later told officers he had seen his father with a knife protruding from his neck prior to the arrival of police.

Andrews was holding the same knife as he approached Fenton, who warned him to stop and then fired several shots as Andrews continued coming, killing him.

Still unknown is what drove the Fairfield lawyer, described by his wife Kathleen and friends as a loving husband and father, to act in such a bizarre fashion.

The report released Thursday was part of a search warrant affidavit issued by state police, who are still investigating the shooting by the Fairfield officer.

It noted that according to Fenton’s verbal statement to his supervisor he first encountered the 15-year-old, who was holding baseball bat. The officer told the boy to drop the bat and he complied.

Christopher Andrews then emerged from the back of the house and approached Fenton, the report states.

“Officer Fenton observed Andrews was armed with a knife and gave verbal commands for Andrews to stop. Andrews did not comply and continued to approach Officer Fenton. Officer Fenton fired several rounds from his firearm, striking Andrews. Andrews fell to the ground in the front yard and was bleeding,” the report continues.

Officers then entered the house. The 15-year-old son was found with head and back injuries.

Both the mother and the 12-year-old son were found in bed in the master bedroom, the report states.

Kathleen Andrews was suffering from stab wounds and blunt force trauma to her head and was bleeding heavily. The couple’s 12-year-old son appeared to have suffered blunt force trauma to his head.

The daughter did not appear to be injured.

Officers noted that in addition to the gunshot wounds, Christopher Andrews had cuts to both wrists and was bleeding from his neck.